Hopes for Remake & Rebirth (story/content)

[Octo]

I hope they make the Turks' suits fit properly and not be all boxy and flappy and badly cut the way they are in ACC, like sometimes it didn't even seem as if there was a body inside the suit. And I hope they get rid of the zips!!!!!!! Not stylish or cool.

Get rid of the zips? GET RID OF THE ZIPS?! Over Nomura's dead body!

Having said that, I didn't like the way Tseng looked in CC, too fucking skinny. And I don't feel like he was particularly imposing either. So they need to sort that out.

 

[anxiousheart]

@The Engineer.

For me I think there's a sense of poignancy and a bit of sadness of stumbling upon Aerith's birthplace so soon after loosing her, that and imagining what her reaction might have been had she seen that information for herself, for me it works. They might just need to flesh it out a bit maybe it could be mentioned after Elena makes her appearance with some Shinra Soldiers, some of town's people I'm sure would remember Gast and Ifalna or could make an allusion to when hojo and some Shinra Soldiers took Aerith and Ifalna by force fron the house, there was enough commotion from the video that someone probably saw it or heard something.

I agree with this point, I always thought the Icicle Inn section was designed that way to prolong the sadness of losing Aeris. Personally I'd like to see this stay in the remake, but maybe with some more info and dialogue from Cloud & co. Something else I'd like them to do is maybe include a reference to the ribbons they all wear in AC. Maybe have iYuffie or another character suggest it

Just re: another comment too about the K.O. vs death issue - I really want them to hit home about that one, if only to stop those persistent jokes and comments about it. Pheonix downs not working outside of battle always made sense to me, but others seem to have an issue with it.

 

[trash panda]

Yeah I like the shock factor of how Aerith's death was done. If there's one thing I don't want them to touch it's her death, everything about that scene just works, lack of dialogue apart from Sephiroth and Cloud, how nobody actually says anything, there's just actions from the group and this is gonna sound so corny but it really was one of those actions speak louder than words scenarios where you could feel every character's grief by them not actually speaking.

I think the fact that you didn't get to say any last words to her makes the situation much more heart wrenching. I hope they don't change it either.

 

[Starling]

Honestly phoenix downs and revive spells only exist so players don't have to revive their characters at an inn. Otherwise every game would have permadeath like Fire Emblem before they finally gave the option to choose.

On Aerith's death, I agree that not getting to talk to her adds to her death, as it leaves her final words as "I'll be back when this is all over". On that matter, I liked Zack's OG death for how swift and harsh it was. He just dies, and then you have a moment to quietly contemplate how cruel the world can be.

 

[Dragonslayer Ornstein]

Thinking of how much grief that caused, it made me almost wish I could save her this time around.

 

[trash panda]

I'm being mean to Aeris right now because I want to take Barret on the Gold Saucer date. Now I feel bad. :[

 

[Captain Jack Harkness]

it's not exactly a story-related hope, but I really hope that they'll say if Hojo is the name or the surname of the character. some people use it as a first name and other as a surname. I find it a bit confusing.

 

[hleV]

It would be nice if story details would be explained better. After all the research in and outside the OG I'm still not sure about many things. People's FFVII theses with different opinions yet valid points don't help at all to find out the truth.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

^^FFVII has a pretty concrete story. We know what happened and when. We just don't know exactly how certain things happened in certain parts of it, but we do know they happened. Which gives just enough wiggle-room for everyone to have their own take on how certain things went down.

It's nowhere near as bad as The Elder Scrolls where we've got conflicting timelines that are all confirmed to be canon because the God of Linear Time was broken/not working at the time in certain locations...

 

[Starling]

Gotta love Bethesda's dedication to making sure player choices matter as much as possible.

 

[Russell]

I totally added that as a smiley,

My work is done.

 

[Dragonslayer Ornstein]

I'm being mean to Aeris right now because I want to take Barret on the Gold Saucer date. Now I feel bad. :[

Gotta love a crossdressing guy that takes it raw from a bunch of hookers at an inn and then fobs off the cute flower girl to go on a date with a big black man.

 

[Channy]

One thing for sure I'd like is more Cetra/Jenova OG (gangsta not game). That part had a very tiny piece of the spotlight but it is the crux of everything that was to come. I'd like to see some more scenes, if not actual flashbacks or footage in Icicle Inn of those experiments/time.

 

[Dragonslayer Ornstein]

As a passive onlooker to this community I must say you guys are the most devoted and loving fanbase I've seen for any particular piece of media. Wow. You guys really want to make sure it turns out alright.

 

[Octo]

One thing for sure I'd like is more Cetra/Jenova OG (gangsta not game). That part had a very tiny piece of the spotlight but it is the crux of everything that was to come. I'd like to see some more scenes, if not actual flashbacks or footage in Icicle Inn of those experiments/time.

YES YES YES YES

Some sort of flashback thingy with Ifalna narrating, or maybe some sort of....cave painting type depictions or OH OH OH what about those glowing block things in the Ancient city?! I always thought I'd be able to go back and understand them at some point.

 

[Channy]

Totally. Or reports and videos from the Icicle Inn that actual show something not just Ifalna and Gast talking about it lol

 

[Tetsujin]

I just wanna know how they depict Cloud and Tifa's post-coitus moment under the Highwind.

 

[55-]

I've thought before that the history of Jenova described in Icicle Inn seemed like it could be a game on its own.

Watchin' those tapes is a real snoozefest upon multiple playthroughs. It might be nice to have an actual visual of what it was like, even though maybe Ifalna wouldn't know because it's not like she was alive then. Seems like they could be real proper scary. Sephiroth never deceived us by taking on the form of our dead loved ones.

In lieu of that, I keep thinking about the idea of it being a minigame in the gold saucer and that's hilarious to me. So that pls.

 

[lithiumkatana17]

I wonder if the writers are going to play it off that Aerith knows about Zack's demise at the beginning of the game. At the end of Crisis Core it's made pretty apparent that she knows he's returned to the Lifestream, so I hope they find a way to incorporate it into the story.

 

[Starling]

The whole Jenova thing wouldn't make a good game. It's one of those things where it's scarier to only know part of what happened and leaving the rest to our imagination.

In the OG it seemed like Aerith at least suspected that Zack was dead but was in denial about it, which is why she downplayed their relationship whenever it came up. Once she got to Zack's house, her reaction seems to suggest that could be when she finally admits to herself that he's been dead all this time.

 

[Channy]

@Tetsujin There's no proof that really happened

 

[Tetsujin]

The proof got lost in the Chocobo stable where they did it.

 

[trash panda]

I so very badly want to know what Jenova really is, where she came from, if she's the last of her kind, why she chose to land on Gaia, if she had a choice, etc.

I WANT TO KNOW...but I'll let fan theories fill in those gaps.

 

[Lex]

I'm anticipating the retranslated lines being interpreted as new lines by some fans and them being angry about it. "THIS WASN'T IN THE ORIGINAL GAME, THEY'RE CHANGING THE STORY!" when actually yes it was and no they're not, you just suffered a hammy as fuck translation like the rest of us.

Cait Sith being Scottish (and I'm assuming they're going to do that) will be seen as an addition from the Compilation, when in actual fact it's one of the very few things the Compilation made right. The toy is supposed to have a distinctive accent, because Reeve is supposed to be putting it on, and the reveal is lost in the original game ("Reeve, you sound funny") because the difference in dialect in Japanese was either not noticed or ignored.

Of course, in the original the difference was in Japanese regional dialects, but Cait Sith is actually a creature from Scottish mythology so his accent in the English version actually makes more sense than it did in Japanese XD.

Anyway yeah, I hope they keep him Scottish, as was (kind of) originally intended. They tried to give him a kind of southern American twang in some lines in the OG, but it doesn't come across well at all.

Watch them cast an Irish VA.

 

[Channy]

The proof got lost in the Chocobo stable where they did it.

That could have been anybody. I hear Tifa gets around.